Alive – and still kicking: the RHS at 150 Margot Finn; Presidential address: material turns in British history: I. Loot Margot Finn; 1. Formalising aristocratic power in royal acta in late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century France and Scotland Alice Taylor; 2. 'The Woman to the Plow and the Man to the Hen-Roost': wives, husbands and best-selling ballads in seventeenth-century England Christopher Marsh; 3. Sacred landscape, spiritual travel: embodied holiness and long-distance pilgrimage in the Catholic Reformation Elizabeth Tingle; 4. Castles and the militarisation of urban society in Imperial Japan Oleg Benesch; 5. Buildings, landscapes and regimes of materiality William Whyte; 6. Orthodoxy and revolution: the restoration of the Russian Patriarchate in 1917 Simon Dixon; 7. 'Who the hell are ordinary people?' Ordinariness as a category of historical analysis Claire Langhamer; 8. Anti-socialism, liberalism and individualism: rethinking the realignment of Scottish politics, 1945–1970 Malcolm Petrie; 9. The troubles with a lower case T: undergraduates and Belfast's difficult history Sean O'Connell; 10. The rise and fall (?) of America's neoliberal order Gary Gerstle; 150 years of Royal Historical Society publishing Ian Archer.